At this morning’s Public Works committee meeting of the Milwaukee Common Council, Midwest Fiber Networks was given a 120 day extension to complete work on the “demonstration area” of the Milwaukee Wireless Initiative that was originally scheduled to be completed in mid-January.
Milwaukee’s CIO said that out of the 120 street post antenna’s that are planned for th 5 square mile demonstration area, 22 are currently installed and working. A Midwest Fiber representative said that although it takes an average of 1-2 days to install each new antenna, she was “100% confident” that the company would meet the extended deadline in 120 days.
That would mean they’ll have to install those 100 remaining antenna’s in under a day each to meet the 120 day deadline, and was a point I wish one of the Alderman would have asked for clarification on.
The question I have now is what happens if and when the new deadline for completion of the demonstration area is missed? Another extension?
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
If the deadline is missed, aldermen will be forced to consider stopping the program since another extension is unlikely.
They also have until July 7th, which is longer than 120 days. (technically, the date the timeline would start was later than the day the extention was granted.)
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